infrastructure

Private equity manager Foresight Group has launched an infrastructure enterprise investment scheme (EIS), in a bid to offer investors access to energy infrastructure opportunities.

Legg Mason has agreed to acquire a majority interest in Australian global listed infrastructure business RARE Infrastructure for a total consideration of up to £94m.

Lazard Asset Management is set to build on the success of its Global Listed Infrastructure Equity fund through the launch of a concentrated global equity portfolio.

Structural reforms are opening up the Spanish market to alternatives managers and lenders again, writes Squircle Capital managing partner José Caireta

How to play the winners and avoid the losers

Managers pick their top alternative assets

Frontier market indicies had a reshuffle this year as UAE and Qatar ascended to emerging market. VAM Funds' Chad Cleaver explains why Vietnam and Sri Lanka are now the leading lights of the sector.

From fee reductions and discount management, to more board scrutiny. Jeremy Beckwith, director of manager research at Morningstar, analyses the changing story behind investment trusts in 2014.

Investment companies fight for recognition

The energy infrastructure sector in the US has outperformed major equity and bond benchmarks over the past five years, posting annualised total returns of 32%, compared to 19% for the S&P 500.